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Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. Like the changing social and racial tides in California - and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.

Betrayed by the government he worked for, Jake Callahan, leader of a group of powerful telepaths, will do anything to keep his people safe—and that means uncovering the secrets behind their past. His only hope lies with Christa Winters, the beautiful scientist daughter of Jake's old boss. But Christa has secrets of her own . . .

A nurse, wife and mother of two, Nina can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in a Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer's boat, and the direction the clues point to will test Finn and the Guard to their limits. When investigative reporter - and Finn's boss's sister - Gabby Rowley arrives, her unrelenting questions complicate an already volatile situation. Now that she's back, the tug on Finn's heart is strong.

Frederike von Cranich übernimmt nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihres Onkels seinen Gutshof in Ruuchmoor, einem idyllischen Dorf im Teufelsmoor. Unterstützt von ihren Freundinnen Charlotte und Bärbel, der Haushälterin Luise und den liebenswerten - wenn auch zuweilen schrägen Ruuchmoorern - beginnt Frederike ihr neues Leben. Das beschauliche Landleben auf Gut Moorensee wird jäh gestört, als in der Nähe der Klosterruine Überreste eines menschlichen Skeletts entdeckt werden.

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from The New York Times, Literary Hub, Stylist and many more 'Takes all the expected stories about growing up Indian American, slices them open with razor-sharp wit, and turns them inside out' CELESTE NG, author of OUR MISSING HEARTS 'Droll, caustic . . . and...

Välskrivet och mycket underhållande. Helhetsbetyg: 4. Elisabeth Brännström, BTJ När Nina Storm beger sig till det lilla samhället Mjöbäck i Västergötland för att ta hand om prästgården som hon fått ärva av sin moster gör hon ett överraskande fynd. I en av prästgårdens garderober hittar hon en kartong fylld med sedelbuntar. Det rör sig om flera miljoner. Nina kan inte förstå var mostern fått pengarna ifrån eller varför hon har gömt undan dem. Innan Nina vet vad hon ska ta sig till kommer kartongen på avvägar.

Politie-stagiaire Emily raakt verwikkeld in geheimen en schuldgevoelens nadat ze het criminele verleden van haar huisgenote Lisa’s vader onderzoekt en verbanden ontdekt met een oud zelfmoorddossier en haar eigen leven. Deel 1 van 3.

¿Qué motivación empuja a un asesino a actuar? ¿Qué hace que unas niñas inocentes se conviertan en las víctimas? La inspectora Carmen Prado y el subinspector César Galán de la UDEV Central, se enfrentan a uno de los casos sin resolver más aterradores que se recuerdan. Han pasado cinco...

1975, GRANADA: En el Virgen del Carmen, un colegio religioso y exclusivo para niñas, una de ellas espera con ilusión ser adoptada. Los años transcurren y su esperanza, cerca de desvanecerse, cambiará cuando reciba el aviso de que una familia está interesada en ella. 2017, UN BRUTAL ASESINATO: Jimena Cruz, una periodista en horas bajas, recibirá la noticia de que un cuerpo sin vida ha aparecido en el Albaicín. Cuando acude a la escena, descubre que pertenece a María, quien fue su maestra en la infancia y a quien consideraba su segunda madre.

FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer’s trap at 16. Years later, when she’s jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her 11 years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation...but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along.

The playboy and the girl next door. Best friends since forever. This was only supposed to be a wedding season as each other's plus-one, nothing more. But Callan Black has his hands on me, his eyes on me, and has suddenly become very possessive of me. Callan is the guy I've crushed on since I was a teen. It's totally unrequited. He's got a type, and I'm not it. Except, lately, there's been lots of stolen glances and time spent together. My life is unraveling, and Callan is the one who's there to help me pick up the pieces.

Après avoir échappé de justesse à une tentative d’assassinat, le journaliste John "Fox" Cattuso, du New Herald Post de Los Angeles, est envoyé par son rédacteur en chef en Italie pour faire un documentaire sur le Grand Jubilé du millénaire. Fox, accompagné de Nancy Shepard, jeune et belle stagiaire, s’intéresse particulièrement à l’étrange maladie de l’ingénieur Sorsi, responsable du système de surveillance du Vatican, et lui fait une visite à la clinique. Or, dès le lendemain, il apprend sa mort soi-disant causée par une embolie. Fox est loin d’être convaincu qu’on lui a dit la vérité.

Keine Ehe ist, was sie zu sein scheint. Als Helen spät von einem Elternabend nach Hause kommt, freut sie sich auf einen schönen Abend mit ihrem Mann Ralph. In letzter Zeit lief es nicht mehr so gut zwischen ihnen. Zusammensitzen und ein Glas Wein trinken würde ihnen guttun und ihre Welt wieder in Ordnung bringen. Doch es kommt anders. Sie findet ihren Mann nicht auf dem Sofa, sondern am Fuße der Kellertreppe liegend.

Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present in this captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series.

Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief - and her former lover. As they begin to investigate, another mystery comes to light.

The gripping new thriller featuring DI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads Diana into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly *Praise for Nina Bhadreshwar* 'One of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction’ – David Peace ‘Everything I love in a crime novel – passion...

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than 2,000 miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. “I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter."" —Reese Witherspoon Think: Gilmore Girls, but with murder...

Six female undergrads at an elite university vanish. The media descends. The families demand action. And as Special Agent Nina Guerrera follows clue by chilling clue, she realizes she’s tracking the most cunning predator of her career. The case takes a turn for the worse, and the bizarre, when several victims are found perfectly preserved in an underground chamber of an abandoned mine. No signs of violence, no hint of how they died. Just more evidence that the killer is cruel, calculating, and a master of mind control.